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The only US aircraft to carry a nuclear reactor was the NB-36H. The reactor was never actually connected to the engines. [1] The program was canceled in 1958. A nuclear-powered aircraft is a concept for an aircraft intended to be powered by nuclear energy.
The CL-1201 design project studied a nuclear-powered aircraft of extreme size, with a wingspan of 1,120 feet (340 m). [4] Had it been built, it would have had the largest wingspan of any airplane to date, [5] and more than three times that of any aircraft of the 20th century.
Buttler, Tony; Gordon, Yefim (2004). "Chapter 6: Nuclear Power and Flying Wings". Soviet secret projects : Bombers since 1945. Hinckley: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-194-6. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012
It was also adapted as a nuclear-armed fighter-bomber for the USAF's Tactical Air Command (TAC), and as a photo reconnaissance aircraft. On 29 September 1954, it performed its maiden flight. The F-101A set world speed records for jet-powered aircraft, including airspeed, attaining 1,207.6 miles (1,943.4 km) per hour on 12 December 1957. [1]
This is what it looks like when the Air Force tests its jet engines This chart shows the incredible cost of operating the US Air Force's most expensive planes US general: China's airpower will ...
The ANP program used modified B-36s to study shielding requirements for an airborne reactor to determine whether a nuclear-powered aircraft was feasible. [46] Convair modified two B-36s under the MX-1589 project. The Nuclear Test Aircraft was a B-36H-20-CF (serial number 51-5712) that had been damaged in a tornado at Carswell AFB on 1 September ...
The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use it to power the aircraft. Nicknamed "The Crusader", [ 1 ] it was created for the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program (ANP for short), to show the feasibility of a nuclear-powered bomber . [ 2 ]
The first American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was USS Enterprise, commissioned in 1961. All of US Navy's current carriers, which are a mix of Nimitz- and Ford-class carriers, are nuclear ...